Hello to all.

Question - I've started dabbling with BSD and noticed that there are a few strains FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD - Which one would you recommend to install and learn ?

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I recommend starting out with FreeBSD since it's better documented and IMO a little easier to use. It's also the most widley used *BSD variant (unless you count OS X). NetBSD and OpenBSD are worth looking into once you have a good feel for how FreeBSD works.

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Originally posted by ccieToBe
I recommend starting out with FreeBSD since it's better documented and IMO a little easier to use. It's also the most widley used *BSD variant (unless you count OS X). NetBSD and OpenBSD are worth looking into once you have a good feel for how FreeBSD works.

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Heres the deal with the bsds
OpenBSD rocks its all i use its install kind of sux but thats all.It is secure like hell ive only cracked 2 bsd boxes both of which were running 2.9 its possible by extremly hard. Another thing about OpenBSD is it doesent support SMP which sux so you can only have single cpu boxes.Also java isn't supported on any of the bsd's. Now FreeBSD supports SMP and its still secure but not even close to OpenBSD. On a scale of 1-10 in security its prob a 7 or 8 where as OpenBSD is a 10. I kind of like the ports packages but ive just never really hit good with FreeBSD. NetBSD is cool and i like its very versitile. I have it running on a Sega Dream Cast. There are a few other BSD
That Did't get metioned. Such as closedBSD
This shits tight its pretty much a firewall on a floppy. Thats right fits on a floppy and another cool one is emBSD put it on a compact flash card.
In my oppion if your good with unix use OpenBSD if your a complete newbie use none of the bsd and start out with slackware linux.

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linuxcomando thanks.

I have some experience with RH and Solaris, so I don't think FreeBSD should be too intimidating.


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Great post linuxcomando but I think FreeBSD supports Java.

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Yes, all Unices that I know of support Java.

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True running certain unixes can support java. But remember that jave isnt open source. So you can't get the src.tar.gz file. ThereFor it won't work on any bsd.Because its not the right type of pkg.
True it will work on linux and solaris but not on BSD. Trust me im a openBSD engineer java will not work on Openbsd.

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Thereis however i forgot to mention a project going on you can go here for more info
http://codemonkey.net/mailman/listinfo/openbsd-javahttp://codemonkey.net/mailman/listinfo/openbsd-java

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Umm, err, how about the Linux Binary compatibility? I.E. if I get the linux distro of Java and hava the Linux bin. compat feature installed on FreeBSD, will it work? I am a java developer and my hardware )(brand new box ) isn't supported by linux, but FreeBSD runs on it just fine.

Any comments?

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